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Image 1746-LaHaye-Hondt-01-061 
Illustration No. 1     
Illustrator Charles-Antoine Coypel (copied after) 
Engraver Jacob van der Schley 
Lithographer  
Title Caption Don Quichotte est delivré de sa folie par la Sagesse 
Title Supplied  
Part Part II, Madrid 1615  
Chapter Chapter 74 
Subject  
Illustration Type Chapter illustration
 
Technique Burin engraving
 
Color Black and white 
Volume
Page Number f.p. 319 
Image Dimension 195 x 154 
Page Dimension 267 x 215 
Commentary Allegorical scene of great beauty.
In a room, don Quixote, asleep, is protected by Wisdom (as Athena/Minerva among shining clouds); his arms and barber basin remain abandoned.
On the right, Sancho, awake, is captivated by Folly (with a jester scepter among dark clouds), who shows him a crown and a castle (the promised government of the island).
Drawing and engraving are masterly. 
Notes 1 - Illustration dated in 1742.
2 - Copy after Coypel's illustration (Paris: Surugue, c. 1728-30).
3 - The composition has been turned and the format now is vertical, so Schley has enlarged the floor and the ceiling.
4 - The illustration is explained by a dialog between don Quixote and Sancho (apocryphal, not by Cervantes). Don Quixote explains his dream to Sancho: "que j'en ai l'Obligation à la fage & incomparable Minerve, qui vient de m'apparoitre, & avec laquelle j'ai eu un Entretien des plus intéressans [...] celle, qui vient de m'apparoitre, & que tu prens pour une Femme ordinaire, est la Déesse de la Sagesse, cette aimable Fille du Ciel [...] qui vient de m'ouvrir les Yeux sur mes Egaremens passez".
Athena/Wisdom tells don Quixote: "Je suis venue exprès en ce Lieu, pour ôter le Bandeau, que la Folie a mis sur tes Yeux" (319-320).